In Depth 7* Chewbacca Guide
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my post that I also made on reddit for getting 7* Chewie. Preface Before we get started, for those of you that are not yet aware, this event is very difficult...
Forum Discussion
@Armyofone & @Mephisto_style :
Army of one said:
Mephisto asked krok:
I ran a very similar lineup to both Krok & Army of One. It just subbed in Zam for IG. The Zam/Greedo Thermal Detonator synergy is very helpful, especially since the enemy is loaded up with health and the Health% effects of TDs can dish serious damage when the right circumstances come together. But there's really very little difference between the squads - Zam is also fairly squishy. She gets stealth which helps, but only after surviving the first volley.So while it's not exactly that team, i think I can speak pretty well to the dynamics.
I restarted a bunch of times - and I mean a BUNCH - before I got Dengar. My Dengar was 6* + 60/100 or something like that when the event started. I was trying to finish off without spending crystals, so I was at the mercy of the Guild Store RNG. I knew I'd get him by the end of the week long event, but thought I'd try without.
Restarting. Did. Not. Help.
You have to be insanely lucky to make it work without Dengar. The only way this really works without Dengar is if R2 decides to use Burning instead of Stealth on its first turn, then you have to use a stun or ability block on r2 before attacking Chewie, and it has to land on the first try even with the Tenacity bonus from ROLO leadership. Then you have to polish off Chewie before r2 gets up and running again and stealths him. If he gets stealth before he dies, he heals back up in no time.
If everything works just right, and if you have just the right strategy (stun or ability block r2, then focus fire on Chewbacca, NEVER use AoE attacks) I'm sure you can do it. A number of people have said in the forums that they've managed it and I believe them - if a million people are playing this game then if one person has to restart 1000 times to get the right RNG then that means 1000 people out of 1,000,000 are going to get the right RNG on the very first try and think it's easy. But the fact is that it requires a completely unrealistic number of restarts, and that assumes you've got lots of firepower and just the right strategy.
In the end, my Dengar was easily finished with 48 hours to go. I popped Dengar into the lineup instead of Greedo, kept Cad Bane for the Stun+Dispel+NoEvade attack, and went to work. I can't remember how many attempts it took, but I saw an instant difference in how far I was getting. On the 3rd attempt I took Chewie down but had some bad luck after that and lost a 2-BH-on-1-r2 fight at the end. Still, that was **very** heartening. It was somewhere 6-10 attempts in that I got another attempt like my 3rd, but Zam didn't die early, and with her force-detonating TDs I finished quite easily, losing only Boba (others got low on health in the first couple volleys, but they healed up to max as the fight went along b/c of Bossk's lead).
The difference for me with and without Dengar was stark. I ended up winning the fight subbing a g9 Dengar for a g11 Greedo. 3 x g12, 2 x g11 couldn't get close. 3 x g12, 1 x g11, 1x g9 finished it pretty quickly when the g9 toon was Dengar.
You've got plenty of time before the next Chewbacca event. Plan now for 7* Dengar. I'm not saying you can't do it without it, but it's the difference between 6-12 hours of straight restarts vs. 10-20 minutes of restarts. Even zBossk isn't as important as g9 Dengar.
My final squad, for the record, was
zBossk (g12, L), Boba (g12), Cad Bane (g12), zZam (g11), Dengar (g9).
On my successful run Boba got taken out (permanently! They killed him TWICE!) without a chance to move, and I thought I'd rely on him for offense. That's how important Dengar is. I think I could have done it with straight g10s with Dengar, although it might have required more restarts, I'm not sure.
Army of one said:
I did it with boba lead g12, bossk g12, ig88, Greeedo g10, cad g11. I did this the first time the event came out and ... had 300 attempts. Not having dengar means that even if you survive the initial onslaught you often get stuck targeting someone other than chewy......it is a pain to do it without him, but possible.
Mephisto asked krok:
How did you do with this line up (zBossk g12, Boba g12, IG, Bane, Greedo g11)?
I ran a very similar lineup to both Krok & Army of One. It just subbed in Zam for IG. The Zam/Greedo Thermal Detonator synergy is very helpful, especially since the enemy is loaded up with health and the Health% effects of TDs can dish serious damage when the right circumstances come together. But there's really very little difference between the squads - Zam is also fairly squishy. She gets stealth which helps, but only after surviving the first volley.So while it's not exactly that team, i think I can speak pretty well to the dynamics.
I restarted a bunch of times - and I mean a BUNCH - before I got Dengar. My Dengar was 6* + 60/100 or something like that when the event started. I was trying to finish off without spending crystals, so I was at the mercy of the Guild Store RNG. I knew I'd get him by the end of the week long event, but thought I'd try without.
Restarting. Did. Not. Help.
You have to be insanely lucky to make it work without Dengar. The only way this really works without Dengar is if R2 decides to use Burning instead of Stealth on its first turn, then you have to use a stun or ability block on r2 before attacking Chewie, and it has to land on the first try even with the Tenacity bonus from ROLO leadership. Then you have to polish off Chewie before r2 gets up and running again and stealths him. If he gets stealth before he dies, he heals back up in no time.
If everything works just right, and if you have just the right strategy (stun or ability block r2, then focus fire on Chewbacca, NEVER use AoE attacks) I'm sure you can do it. A number of people have said in the forums that they've managed it and I believe them - if a million people are playing this game then if one person has to restart 1000 times to get the right RNG then that means 1000 people out of 1,000,000 are going to get the right RNG on the very first try and think it's easy. But the fact is that it requires a completely unrealistic number of restarts, and that assumes you've got lots of firepower and just the right strategy.
In the end, my Dengar was easily finished with 48 hours to go. I popped Dengar into the lineup instead of Greedo, kept Cad Bane for the Stun+Dispel+NoEvade attack, and went to work. I can't remember how many attempts it took, but I saw an instant difference in how far I was getting. On the 3rd attempt I took Chewie down but had some bad luck after that and lost a 2-BH-on-1-r2 fight at the end. Still, that was **very** heartening. It was somewhere 6-10 attempts in that I got another attempt like my 3rd, but Zam didn't die early, and with her force-detonating TDs I finished quite easily, losing only Boba (others got low on health in the first couple volleys, but they healed up to max as the fight went along b/c of Bossk's lead).
The difference for me with and without Dengar was stark. I ended up winning the fight subbing a g9 Dengar for a g11 Greedo. 3 x g12, 2 x g11 couldn't get close. 3 x g12, 1 x g11, 1x g9 finished it pretty quickly when the g9 toon was Dengar.
You've got plenty of time before the next Chewbacca event. Plan now for 7* Dengar. I'm not saying you can't do it without it, but it's the difference between 6-12 hours of straight restarts vs. 10-20 minutes of restarts. Even zBossk isn't as important as g9 Dengar.
My final squad, for the record, was
zBossk (g12, L), Boba (g12), Cad Bane (g12), zZam (g11), Dengar (g9).
On my successful run Boba got taken out (permanently! They killed him TWICE!) without a chance to move, and I thought I'd rely on him for offense. That's how important Dengar is. I think I could have done it with straight g10s with Dengar, although it might have required more restarts, I'm not sure.
